Aimee Knight

Aimee Knight (née Challenor) is a British transgender activist and former politician. She was described as a rising star in the Green Party and its equalities spokesperson. In 2018, her father, who had been her election agent, was convicted of raping a child and she was no-fault suspended during an investigation into safeguarding failures by the party. She subsequently joined the Liberal Democrats in 2019 and was suspended after tweets appeared on her fiancé's account stating he fantasized about children having sex, which she attributed to hacking.

Knight later worked for Reddit as an administrator. In March 2021, a moderator was banned for linking to an article which mentioned her. Approximately 200 subreddits went private in protest of the ban and Knight's employment, arguing she hadn't been vetted properly due to her father and fiancé. Reddit's CEO issued a statement that the ban had been the result of an overzealous automated moderating system meant to prevent doxxing and that she was no longer employed by the company.

She has been subject to harassment from anti-trans activists who have attempted to use her to link trans women and transgender rights with child abuse.

Early life

Knight was diagnosed with autism when she was 4. She started identifying as a girl around the age of 10. Knight and her two younger siblings were taken into care in 2013 after social services expressed concerns about her parents. She was educated at Lewis Charlton Learning Centre.

In February 2013, Knight, then 15 and affiliated with Anonymous, was arrested on suspicion of planning to carry out a cyberattack on the Bull Ring website in protest of tax evasion. No charges were brought and the case was eventually dropped.